Activists Say IS Advancing In Syria Despite Russian Air Strikes

“French Rafale jets dropped bombs on this training camp and the targets were met”, he said.

The London-based Syria Observatory for Human Rights said on October 9 that IS forces had captured Tel Suseen and Tel Qarah from other groups fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad. In Syria potential attacks are being organised, the training of foreign combatants is being organised whose mission is to come and strike us here, France’s enemy is Da’esh.

French Defence Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, on Friday said that his country had launched a new air strike overnight in Syria against an Islamic State training camp.

“IS organises itself in such a way that children, women and civilians are in the frontline”, he said.

“France hit Daesh (or IS) in Syria last night in Raqqa”, Le Drian told local broadcaster Europe 1, adding that “it is not the first time, nor will it be the last time”, hinting there might be more air strikes in the future.

“The leaders hide in schools, mosques, hospitals, which makes the job of the (international) coalition hard”.

Russia, engaged in its first military campaign outside the former Soviet Union for 30 years, rejected criticism from US officials on Thursday that four of the 26 cruise missiles fired at Syrian rebels from Russian ships in the Caspian Sea had crashed in Iran.

Russia’s defence ministry has flatly denied the claim.

Germany and Spain yesterday urged Washington and Moscow to work together to help unlock a political solution to the Syrian war, after Russian air strikes there raised tensions.